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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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